Warren Spector is a name known well by dedicated PC gamers. The man helped make innovative games like System Shock, Deus Ex and Thief. More recently, Warren Spector worked with Disney Interactive on Disney's Epic Mickey games. With Disney shuttering his Junction Point Studios, Spector is taking a vacation for the first time in his life.
But he’s keeping busy with speaking engagements and going back to school, designing a game development program for the University of Texas Austin. Now free of public relations restrictions, Spector opens up to us about game development and his own future in this exclusive interview.
Game On: You’ve partnered with Blizzard’s Paul Sams to create the Denius-Sams Gaming Academy at the University of Texas. What’s it going to be like to teach the next generation of game makers?
Spector: For 30 years I’ve been arguing for the need to take a more structured approach to training the next generation of developers; it’s important to teach them what makes games work. Now, it’s much easier to convince people that games education has a place in the colleges and the universities in the country.
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